Accreditation
The Allen W. and Carol M. Schmidthorst College of Business holds dual accreditation in business and accounting from The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International). Dual accreditation is achieved by only 1 percent of business schools worldwide.
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Core Courses (21 credit hours)
MBA 6010: Quantitative Analysis for Managers
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 2
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to quantitative methods used in managerial decision-making. Emphasis is placed on formulating, analyzing, and interpreting models that address real-world business challenges. Topics include linear and integer programming, and simulation for risk assessment. Students will apply these tools using industry-standard software to support strategic and operational decisions across various business functions.
MBA 6020: AI and Digital Transformation for Business Leaders
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 2
This course equips students with the strategic and technical knowledge to lead digital transformation initiatives powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Students will explore how AI reshapes business models, optimizes operations, and creates new sources of value. The curriculum emphasizes AI fundamentals, emerging technologies, technology management strategies, and ethical considerations. Through real-world case studies and hands-on applications, students will develop the skills to manage AI projects, drive innovation, and lead change in dynamic business environments. This course prepares future leaders to navigate the digital economy with confidence, agility, and a strong grasp of technological disruption.
MBA 6030: Managerial Accounting
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 2
The objective of this course is to examine the information needs of managers when performing their planning, decision-making, and performance evaluation functions. Specifically, topics including cost behavior patterns, product costing issues, budgeting, short term and long term decisions, and management control systems will be discussed. The relevance of these topics for managers performing their functions will be presented.
MBA 6040: Supply Chain and Operations Management
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course seeks to develop an understanding of the principles and practices involved in designing, managing, and optimizing operations and supply chains in both manufacturing and service industries. Topics focus on how supply chains create value for organizations, their suppliers, and customers. Students will explore strategies for supply, operations, and logistics processes and how they are integrated with other functions within the organization and across organizations. Through the use of case studies and applied discussion students gain understanding of supply chain strategy; product, process, and service design; quality, process improvement, and lean; inventory management; and ethical and sustainable practices from a supply chain standpoint.
MBA 6050: Marketing Management and Strategy
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course explores core principles and strategies in marketing from a managerial perspective, with an emphasis on how organizations create, deliver, and capture customer value. Students will develop a strategic perspective on marketing decisions by examining consumer behavior, market segmentation, targeting and positioning, branding, pricing, promotion, and distribution. Through case analyses, discussions, and experiential projects such as simulations, marketing plans, or media-based critiques, students will learn to evaluate marketing opportunities, formulate actionable strategies, and address complex business challenges in competitive and global environments.
MBA 6060: Financial Management
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course takes a project-based approach to corporate finance, emphasizing financial modeling, analytical decision-making, and real-world application. It examines how firms acquire, allocate, and manage financial resources, with a particular focus on capital budgeting and valuation tools of non-financial companies. The course also introduces the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning for financial management.
MBA 6080: Leadership and Corporate Social Responsibilities
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course explores the dynamic intersection of leadership, business ethics, and corporate social responsibility (CSR), equipping students with the essential knowledge and skills to lead effectively, make ethical decisions, and drive sustainable business practices. In today’s complex business environments, managers must balance various functions and roles, with leadership being paramount, as managers achieve organizational goals through others. A deep understanding of ethical challenges, stakeholder management, and CSR practices is crucial for leading organizations in a socially responsible and sustainable manner. The course examines key concepts and strategies related to leadership, ethics, and CSR, with the goal of preparing students to apply these principles in real-world business environment while considering the diverse perspectives of key stakeholders.
MBA 6090: Strategic Management
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course focuses on how firms can successfully compete in the global competitive environment. Students learn how, as managers, they can help their organization be more competitive. Using real company cases, students learn how to evaluate alternative strategies, structures, capabilities, and processes using analytical and conceptual techniques derived from organization theory and strategic management. This knowledge lays a foundation and enables the students to develop skills for lifelong learning about the strategic management process.
Elective Courses (9 credit hours)
Students can choose 9 credits (3 courses) from the following list:
MBA 5510: Investment Analysis and Management
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Appraisal of investment risks of specific securities; valuation and suitability of specific securities for investment. Management of fixed-income and equity portfolios emphasizing the role that options and futures play in managing securities portfolios.
MBA 5530: International Financial Management
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Extends financial management to the international arena with emphasis on the financial strategies of multinational corporations. Topics include foreign exchange markets, currency futures and options markets, swaps, international securities markets, managing and hedging security risk, multinational financing strategies and capital budgeting, and international portfolio management.
ACCT 5510: Auditing
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Auditing principles and procedures for independent verification of financial records and reviews of operations as used by internal auditors and public accountants. Nature of audit evidence, evaluation of internal controls, statistical sampling, computer auditing.
ACCT 6230: Financial Accounting and Analysis II
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This is the second course in financial accounting. It reinforces topics from the previous course and examines more advanced accounting topics than those included in the first financial accounting course. Topics include investments, contingent liabilities, long term debt, leases, pensions, the equity section, earnings per share, income taxes and the statement of cash flows. Each section is independent of previous topics
SCM 6010: Category Management and Strategic Sourcing
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course examines the strategic role of supply management within organizations. Topics covered include developing and implementing category plans, developing sourcing strategies, identifying, evaluating, and negotiating with suppliers to establish contracts, administering contracts, and managing supplier relationships. The importance of ethics and sustainability in global supply management and how digital technologies are changing supply chain processes are explored. Approved for distance learning.
SCM 6030: Strategic Project Management For Supply Chain Change
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Projects are key drivers of change in today’s supply chains because they link strategy, execution, and capabilities. Effective supply chain leaders must be competent project managers. This course presents the foundations of project management and introduces students to the world of real-life supply chain project challenges. Course topics include key issues when managing projects in supply chains: strategy, project selection, structure and culture, project plans, managing risk, scheduling resources, reducing project duration, leading and managing teams, supply chain change management, performance management and evaluation and current topics in supply chain project management. Approved for distance learning.
MKT 6100: Consumer Behavior
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A multidisciplinary introduction to the basic concepts and theories of consumer behavior. It reviews the knowledge gained from various social sciences in the field of consumer behavior. Emphasis will be given to the underlying factors that influence, and processes that comprise, consumer acquisition, consumption, and disposition of products, services, and ideas. Prerequisites: MBA 6050.
MKT 6200: Digital Marketing Strategy & Tactics
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A theoretical and practical understanding of digital marketing strategy and tactics from a managerial perspective. Topics including digital advertising, social media, search marketing, content marketing, email marketing, digital analytics, and online consumer behavior are covered and employed through case analysis and experiential application. Prerequisites: MBA 6050.
MKT 6300: Customer Insights & Analysis
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
An introduction to various marketing research techniques to collect and analyze customer information to help marketing decision-making. The skills and tools taught in this course will help students better understand and predict customer behavior. Topics include, but are not limited to, research design, exploratory research, descriptive research, causal research, questionnaire design, sampling design, data preparation, methods of data analysis, and interpretation and presentation of marketing research results. Prerequisites: MBA 6050, STAT 6010.
MKT 6400: Branding
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces the basics of strategic brand management. Topics include the meanings of brand and branding, products versus brands, brand elements and associations, components and processes of a brand strategy, new brands, digital brands, brand architecture, measures of brand performance, and time and place contingencies in branding. Emphasis is on application of branding concepts and theories to draw practical conclusions through case studies and projects. Prerequisites: MBA 6050.
Foundation Courses (up to 12 credit hours)
Students who lack prior academic preparation in Business Administration may need to complete up to 12 prerequisite credit hours in addition to the 30-credit hour MBA curriculum. Completing all foundation courses will lead to a Business Foundations Certificate.
ACCT 5810: Financial Accounting and Analysis
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 2
This class studies the basic fundamentals of financial accounting and its place in modern society. The students will also have the opportunity to apply the concepts to real-life companies.
ECON 5820: Business Economics
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 2
This course provides business students with a general overview of the discipline of economics and explores the decisions and consequences of firms and managers making economic decisions.
FIN 5830: Principles of Finance
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 2
This course introduces the financial aspects of a corporation. Students will learn financial concepts and tools and how to apply them to make better decisions for the firm. Topics include time value of money, analysis of financial statements, interest rates, valuation of securities, risk and return, cost of capital, capital budgeting, and cash flow estimation.
STAT 5840: Quantitative Analysis for Managers
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 2
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to fundamental statistical concepts and important statistical techniques. Emphasis is placed on formulating the problem, analyzing the data, and interpreting the statistical analyses in the context of the problem. Topics to be covered include exploratory data analysis, confidence interval estimation, hypothesis testing, regression analysis, and time series analysis and forecasting.
MKT 5850: Marketing Essentials for Business Leaders
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 2
This course provides students with a working knowledge of core marketing concepts and decision-making frameworks. Students will explore how businesses analyze markets, identify customer needs, and create customer value. The emphasis is on developing foundational fluency in marketing language, logic, and tools to apply structured thinking to analyze real-world marketing scenarios.
MGMT 5860: Organizational Behavior
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 2
This course introduces students to various psychological and social scientific theories, as well as the core debates involved in understanding both traditional and contemporary organizations. It offers an overview of key organizational behavior concepts at the individual, group, and organizational levels of analysis.
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